Version 0.9.78 is posted to the server. Changes include:
- Added preference to show 80% charge time (thanks
adspguy)
- Added preference to have the car speak instructions when reading the feed info (thanks again
adspguy)
- Detect when a charge command fails (i.e., when not plugged in) and display an error
- Clear any displayed error when refreshing CARWINGS info or sending a new command
- Retry getting latest status for a few seconds at startup in case the network takes some time to come up (thanks yet again
adspguy)
- Better handling/checking of whether the user has already setup the info feed in CARWINGS: now it doesn't pester you until you hit Send, and it always gives you the option to send anyway
- CARWINGS unfortunately does NOT report the connection type when you are plugged in but not charging; updated the plugged-in text color to reflect this ambiguity
rslatkin said:
I suggest disabling or graying out the "Start Charging" button when the car is not plugged in.
I actually made it the way it is on purpose. Basically it eliminates one of the annoyances from the Nissan app: if you know you are plugged in, but your latest status is a little old, you don't have to wait for a status refresh cycle (could take a minute or more) to send the charge command. Same thing with the climate control commands. In any of these cases, if the true status is not what's currently displayed, nothing bad happens by sending a command that might not make sense (i.e., Start Charge when not plugged in).
adspguy said:
1. it would be nice if when you do a google search, it sorted the responses by distance, better if you show the distance too.
Yes, that would be nice. I've wanted it to be this way from the beginning. Unfortunately, Google doesn't provide any way to specify that results should be sorted by distance. When you search for places near a location, Google takes the location only as a "hint" - it doesn't actually return only the closest results. It may preferentially include results that are farther away but that it thinks are more relevant or prominent. There's no way to tell it not to do this and sort strictly by distance.
In general, the first 5 (or so) results in a search should be nearby but are not guaranteed to be the closest matches. The results list returned by Google also doesn't include locations, so I would have to individually look them up to get distances and do the sort myself. I'm not sure if it's worth the extra latency to do that, but I'll think about it.
Hmm, maybe Bing provides sorted closest matches...
Thanks everyone for the continued feedback!